People who describe themselves as more trusting of others tend to be more hypnotizable, says Spiegel, while those who are very logical and never take anything at face value tend to be less hypnotizable.

Low-hypnotizable people cannot be hypnotized by the best stage hypnotists, while those who are highly hypnotizable can readily go into a hypnotic state in response to suggestions from anyone they trust, including themselves.

“The reader who becomes absorbed in novels, adventure stories, mysteries, science fiction, and related types of literature why not poetry? is likely to have his imagination stirred and his emotions aroused …” Such absorption-prone readers “tend to be highly hypnotizable” 352-353.